Design Your Physician Life

1. Welcome to Design Your Physician Life

• Myrdalis Diaz-Ramirez, MD • Season 1 • Episode 1

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Hello! And, welcome to this Episode #1 of our podcast, Design Your Physician Life! A podcast for prospective, young, and not-so-young physicians. I'm your host Dr. Myrdalis Diaz-Ramirez. This is our 1st episode, where we will discuss all things Design Your Physician Life. That is why we were created, what it is, and how we will work together. I hope you enjoy it! Thank you!

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Yesterday I found myself laughing along celebrating the success of one our fellow physicians, she had just won a real estate deal over the real estate mogul, Ken McElroy. It was for a project in Houston. And I wish I could say this vision entrepreneur was me. But it's not. It's not me. She's an incredible Doctor Who kept a 4.0. through medical school, she went on to become an awesome emergency room physician. She was even managing a helicopter service for the hospital at the time, and was even featured in one of those er, TV shows. However, the workload increased to the point that she may would sleep two hours at night. And obviously not long after that she became burnout. But now she's able to care for patients in a more relaxed way. And she has been able to achieve financial independence through your state. And she's winning deals to my Gilroy. And the reason I was laughing was because I just heard somebody, implying that people who had great grades and went to professional schools couldn't really be real enterpreneurs. They were implying that people in that situation didn't know what losing was. And I'm sure this person truly has no clue about what it is to lose patient lives under your care. And they can die from preventable or non preventable causes. To a physician losing is really not an option, when it happens is devastating for all those involved, and then we have to deal with it, and then move on right to the next patient and make sure that failure doesn't repeat itself. We are great at looking for options for the other patients and creating options where there's no options left. Sure, this is an example of why we can be great intrapreneurs just like my ER physician friend. The challenge we have these days is how to practice for joy, not for knee. And it turns out that we have found the powerful tool of entrepreneurship to help physicians take over control of their position journey. This is why I created this podcast the design your physician life podcast, we hope to bring you stories of physicians who have been successful right now, these days 2022 When I recorded this first podcast will give you tips about how you can be as successful as well as feeling control of your destiny You can create you can redesign or design your physician life at any stage. I'm Dr. Morales Diaz Ramirez and I want to welcome you to my first episode of our podcast design your physician life. Just so you get to know me. I'm a mom of a boy and girl there right now teen twins at the moment of this recording. I've been married for many years to the love of my life, my husband, who I met in high school, so you can imagine I went through my whole medical career studying and everything with him. And he's been my partner in crime for all these years, and also being part of all our businesses. I'm an interventional pain doctor, and I went through the residency in anesthesiology, then to my pain management fellowship. These days, I can say I truly enjoy helping fellow physicians who might feel overwhelmed loss and burnout when achieving control their physician lives through our maxilla mastermind. These are mastermind preposition enterpreneurs. It's an exclusive mastermind. We meet in small groups where we can help you learn techniques and guide your path so that you can develop a specific blueprint with specific plans in order to retain or regain control of your position life. We use what we call the powerful tool of intrapreneurship. To achieve this, and we bring you position coaches who have been successful in the same processes. They coach you directly in small groups where we will be able to pay attention to your specific situation, and you will feel like the weight has been relieved. This is one of our coaches that position in this example above. But she's not the only one I have to tell you more example of our friends and previous members in our group. We've had physicians who have been able to acquire extra daily and weekly time so they can take care of their own families and businesses with just minor changes. We're very proud of that. We also have coaches and members of our group who have used different aspects of entrepreneurship to live happier lives. We have physicians taking control of their offices, developing real estate, beginning coaching programs, physical and digital products, investments. Maybe they have a physical facility they're developing, and we've had even decisions go viral on social media. Some of them have just started from the very basics of fixing their financial lives. You name it. The transformation of these physicians and their families has been truly an honor to achieve and is priceless. Let's go back in time. I don't know if you remember your pediatrician. I remember mine his name was Dr. was silly. Recently, when I would visit his office, I would feel welcome. He had all these wonderful murals on the walls with his story from the time you came to the office all the way to each exam room Yes, in my time it was the Flintstones, it's that little while ago, there was a theme on the walls. Now looking back, I realized that he was truly a physician enterpreneur. To me, it seemed that he had happy personnel. He was in control, and he managed the clinic. And by the way, it was really, really clean, pretty. Everything seems seamless from my point of view. And I can tell you that I was a very seasoned 10 to 12 year old who would go to this office and seek care, I have to tell you that I came from a very intrapreneurial family. I love the way it might be the attrition treated me. So he had great bedside manners. I truly hate it, I have to say when he put his cold hands on my belly, but just looking back, he was really an awesome position and enterpreneur now I can tell that he was truly practicing for joy and not for need. He had a partner in his business. His name was Dr. Toro. Dr. Toto was very, very loud when he would come down the hallway, you could hear Him speaking very loudly and everybody was laughing. Doctor recently was very soft spoken. But such a gentleman. They made a great team. And you could tell you could tell from the front office and to the nurses they had they were very happy working there. And those are the features that great enterpreneurs have, they are able to have great service for their clients. My friends and cousins would all go to that office and later growing up and actually coming from Puerto Rico where I'm from originally to the US mainland. I found others who probably share that lonely space with me. I've been doing medicine for over 25 years now. I graduated medicine in 1996. Then I went to my internship in an STC ology did my residency in anesthesiology, for my anesthesiology residency, I moved to Portland, Oregon, at Oregon Health and Science University that was beautiful, beautiful place, I really was very fortunate to go there. After finishing my residency, I did my fellowship there as well in interventional pain management. So I've been really an interventional pain management now for over 20 years practicing in Florida, closer to home. I've been very fortunate to have a great career, I have been able to manage different things clinics, and create clinics, and even successfully sold my own pain clinics. I want prices, like the centers of excellence from the American Pain Society. That was really a great achievement and success. I'm very proud of that team that was able to lead our clinic to that price. Those achievements. As you know, they don't happen with just doing them alone. I've had great mentors, great team members, and I've had coaching, and this is what we want to do for you. We want to bring coaching and mentorship through this podcast so that you know that you're not alone. As a physician, you have to understand that there's many many options for you and you can advance on your decision life. Regardless of how many years ago you graduated. So it's been over 25 years since my med school graduation. I do have to say that in the last 25 years to have truly witnessed many changes in patient access health care processes, and the well being of our physicians has rapidly declined, we hear more and more about physicians looking to quit because of unhappiness. And this feeling doesn't seem to be the same that probably my pediatrician was feeling when he was taking care of me, there has been a shift from position old practices to Administrator own practices. Maybe there was the thought of having the best intentions, you know, like creating systems to improve things. But when these systems were created, modern medical systems became just often too complicated to navigate. And they are definitely low inefficiency. This can lead to frustration for the physician and everybody else involved, especially our patients. At the same time. Excellence is required from the physicians who keep losing control over their patient care. And I have to tell you, I've talked to other physicians and yes, at the end of the day, being a physician is having a job, however, for most of us, is truly a job of love. But the responsibility of this job and the energy that you have to have is the same from the first minute that you come through the door until the last minute before you leave through the door again, and even more for those of us who take call 24 hours a day. And also the energy has to be the same doesn't matter if you just graduated from medicine or if you're 30 years out from your graduation. The good thing for you is that through entrepreneurship, we have found a way where you can truly practice for joy and not for knee. Like the first physician in our example. She's being able to practice lifestyle medicine on her own terms and she's helping many patients with her knowledge. If there's one thing that we have learned in medicine as physicians just taking care of life every day, is that we truly don't know when life is going to end. How would you feel like if you live your life under your terms, what would it look like? Would you want to say like the sunset is ideal at all? Or do you want just to keep wondering if there's something better than what you have right now, because after many years, all the financial, social and mental sacrifices you have made, you want to make sure that you feel like you've accomplished something good for yourself and the ones that surround you. For me, being a physician is one of the best things one can ever do. In my case, I've gotten to meet so many wonderful people and help so many patients. I'm truly happy that I have done that. But it wasn't always roses, right? Like we went through all that training and all those tests. And it was like what we call, you know, let's call it these days, maybe a worthy challenge. I also went through burnout, and more than once, but because I was able to come out of it. Now I can tell you how we did it. And how we did it is the word weak, right? It was a team effort. Let me just give you a powerful exercise for you to start designing your physician life today. Right now, pause this podcast, and go and get your preferred method to write look for a pencil or a pen, I don't know, if you want to do it on your cell phone or computer, whatever you want to do. But it's best if you write it down, because that will help you visualize and make the transition happen. I'll wait. I'll be here after you press play again. Now, let's wait till they have it. Well, now that you have something to write that define where you are in life, if possible, let's start this, just take whatever it is that you decided to write on, and try to make three columns game, we're going to do three columns. So let's start with the first column. The first column will be your current state. So we're going to write down or you're going to write down the most detail that you can one item per line in this column of your current status. So you're going to start at the top, you can do it in any order that you want. And you can always add things later. So let's start from where you're physically even start, like from the city and state where you're leaving the home where you live, which type of home it is the building where you work, the streets that you have to navigate for your commute, your workplace, your family situation, life with your partner, if you have any. Or if you don't, then right I don't have a partner, your life or relationship with any family members, relationship with your friends, with yourself, your current hobbies, how much you sleep, and exercise your relationship with your boss, if you have one, you relationship with your patients. Are you patients happy about the service that you're giving them right now? Do you feel like you're able to give them the service that you want to provide them write all those things down one per line, right, also the state of your business if you have one. Or maybe if you have a current idea for a business and you just haven't started, right how you feel about your time for yourself and for others. These are just the facts of your life. We're just stating the facts of your life and your feelings about the way you see where you are. Right now, as a physician, as part of your physician life in your journey at this very moment, take all the time you can to do this part, you can rewind and see take more ideas. Things that I didn't mention here. But just be as detailed as you can define your state, define your current situation. Now, if you're satisfied with what you wrote, then let's move to the column beside each item. So now we're gonna write what you would like that item to be. What do you want your life to be? Don't be vague, be very specific about what you want your life to be. So remember that we wrote maybe about how your current home is? Do you have a dream home? Maybe you have a dream for your partner with you. Maybe you have a dream of how much sleep actually you want to be sleeping, how many hours what you want to do for exercising. So you have your first column, your current state. And your second column is what you want your life to look like. Be detail, be precise and see it imagine it feel it as if it was already happening to you. Don't be scared to dream. Just put it the same way that you think it should happen for you. Now that you've done these two things, we have the first column where is the list of the things that describe warriors are right now your state we're going to do Have the second column that you just finished as well, where you would like to be. We're going to write a third column, by each item you're going to write, why you want your life to be like that? Is there a contribution you want to make? Is there a particular goal that you want to have. And there's a reason behind that something very passionate something for you. That means something that you learn from someone, an example you want to follow, maybe something you learned when you were growing up, or later in your life. We know that once you have your y defined, it's going to be so much easier to get our how. So define your why, why you want to do this, why you want to get there. Part of the planning. Part of the designing starts with you defining exactly who you are right now, who you want to be and why you want to do that. And then it's going to be so much easier to define the gap between those two places and build a bridge of possibility. Now, it's really time to stop dreaming and desiring be ready to take action. Subscribe to this podcast. Have your partner join us as you learn from our coaches, our mastermind members, our friends, and many other physician intrapreneurs who are already living the life of their dream. Be ready to the sign your physician life with us, please visit our website at WWW dot max allured that comm that's ma x a ll you Ari and remember the best things happen in good company, share this podcast on our website. Have a great day.

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